| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from Rev. Alexander Thomson, Haddington, complaining that he has been under the orders of others for twelve hours and even now is instructed by 'George Reid A.R.S.A. (were it not for these four horrible letters I would not obey him)' to write to Macdonald, which would be a pleasure were it not compulsory, facetious remarks about the weather, about a horse with a broken wind, and about John Forbes White's visit, hopes that Reid and White are now asleep so that he can finish, thanks to Macdonald for 'Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk', 16 February 1871 |